I think 2013 and the next two years would be the start of of Indian firms really getting serious about social business. About becoming open and transparent businesses. About embracing a new kind of management process.
Happy New Year to all of you. Thank you for spending time visiting this
blog, reading what I have to say, commenting on it, helping me learn,
helping me share.
SHRM India has Advisory Panels on different HR disciplines, which serve as voluntary bodies providing expert advice to the wider community of HR professionals.
The Knowledge Center activities for SHRM in India is an on-line, expert advisory service for HR professionals who are SHRM India members.
This is in line with SHRM India's overall mission - as a not for profit organization - that supports and advances the Human Resource Profession as a whole.
· Each panel comprises a mix of academia, consultants and practitioners.
I was requested to join the SHRM India Advisory Panel on HR and Social Media as a Subject Matter Expert. You can find my profile here.
It's a great honor for me to host 2012's final Carnival of HR (this being my 4th time, first was in 2007, the second in 2008, third in 2009 ) - with some thought provoking as well as practical blog posts submitted by HR bloggers from across the world. I've arranged the various blog posts by theme and have also picked my top blog post :)
Here goes (drumroll!!)
My top pick of the blog posts: Rawn Shah has a very thought provoking post on whether companies' employment models are "too stateful" and whether rise of crowdsourcing and collective intelligence will make companies more flexible and agile
Holidays and HR
Susan from About.com reminds us that in the party season, here are the gaffes during office parties to keep away from, while Stuart Rudner tells us the legal ramifications and how to avoid the risk of office parties. Julie tells us the top 3 gifts employees want (not just in the holiday season!)
Social Media and HR
Christopher differentiates between Talent Communities (which I have blogged about earlier) and Talent Networks. Julie focuses on social media and business as well as recruiting benefits for B2B companies. Nisha suggests that companies make their employees their social brand ambassadors
Leadership & Performance
Mark has a very helpful post for leaders who come up against a different idea and don't want to compromise. Linda blogs about how our thinking is an ethical driver for leadership. And Alex tells leaders that creating meaningful company goals means more to employees, and examples of such goals. Karin tells us who actually writes the performance appraisal when a great leader is leading. Your Boss tells you what to ask him/her to prepare for your performance appraisal.
On a different note, John Hunter brings lessons from a video about traffic jams to share how to use incentives rather than prescriptive solutions to change social systemic behavior.
Amit blogs about how mentoring helps in developing leaders.
And that's all, folks! I had a great time hosting the Carnival! If you want to keep track of the carnival as it travels across the HR Blogosphere - here's where you need to go!
It's the second time I am hosting the Carnival of HR, first time was in 2009 January.
The Carnival of HR was originally started way back in February 2007 by Suzanne Lucas aka the Evil HR Lady,
the Carnival of HR is dedicated to bringing together the best posts
from the HR blogging community! In 2008 Suzanne handed over the Carnival
reins to Alison Green aka Ask A Manager,
who did a great job increasing both participation and awareness.
Currently, the Carnival of HR is managed by Shauna Moerke aka the HR Minion or “Carnival Ringmistress” as she prefers to be called.
But what is a blogging “Carnival”?
A blogging carnival is a social media meme in which a group of
bloggers submit blog posts to a “host” who compiles the posts into one
collection that they then publish on their site on the prearranged day.
The posts and bloggers are generally focused on an similar area of
interest, such as Human Resources, and may or may not have a theme which
unites the posts on a specific question or topic. Carnivals occur on a
regular schedule, monthly/biweekly/weekly, and the carnival hosts change
after each event. You can find more information about blog carnivals here.
So what’s the deal with the Carnival of HR?
The Carnival of HR is a bi-weekly carnival that focuses on Human
Resources, Business, and Management blogs. Each carnival brings together
a diverse collection of posts that will make you think, introduce you
to new blogs, and can be a great way to drive traffic to your site if
you chose to participate.
I'm hosting the carnival on 19th, so if you'd like to submit your posts to be featured here's what you need to do:
1. Please submit a
recent (within 2 weeks) post of your own to my email gautam dot ghosh at gmail .
2. Once the Carnival goes live please help promote it via twitter, your blog,
or what have you.
3. Check out the Carnival of HR site!! This not a "rule" per se, but it's
still a good idea.
The final computer-generated Yoda as seen in the film. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Some weeks ago @jobsworth aka JP Rangaswami had a series of blogposts saying the plural of personal is social. Go ahead you must read it. JP's a thought leader in the thinking of social and business. In fact I recently called him the "Yoda of #socbiz"
What reminded me of JP's blog posts yesterday was an incident that happened between Cleartrip and its PR agency Buzz PR. They then blogged about why they did that.
First the accolades poured in. Here was a company that really did care for its influencer's and customers' privacy and did not back away from tough decisions.
Then the PR community started to question. Was this really professional on Cleartrip's part?
Someone replied on the lines of: Well, when we as customer's get treated badly by brands due to shoddy service, don't we tweet/blog about it. That's exactly what Cleartrip is doing.
Karthik who has worked in PR wrote a blog post pointing out why Cleartrip's "name and shame" approach was wrong. And then Hrush of Cleartrip replied to that blogpost and admitted that it was wrong to name the agency.
Cleartrip lost some fans yesterday, but they gained many more due to their transparency. However, Buzz PR lost a lot more. And for a PR agency whose core strength is handling reputation and crises for their clients, they did not make any statement to clarify their part of the story.
Yes, business is getting personal again. And social. And mistakes would happen. And the social side will look back (as JP the Yoda says :)).
It's been over a decade since I started this blog. I primarily meant it to be a chronicle of my thoughts as my career progressed and my points of view changed.
Somewhere along the line, people started discovering blogs and reading them. I remember sometime in 2006 when I was at a SHRM India meetup at Hyderabad I was shocked to find many people in a group of 30 people come up to me and say that they read my blog. Until that time I had assumed only other bloggers would be reading my blog.
I remember back going to a friend after that and saying that meeting people who read my blog is unnerving. "Why?" he had asked. "Because they know so much about my views and I don't know them at all. There's information asymmetry"
Yes, I am an introvert. I find it very difficult to meet people in a real life social setting and have conversations. I guess that is why I find it easier to connect with people on social media.
So last week it happened again. I was introduced to many people and quite a few exclaimed "Oh, I read your blog!" or "When I was home for three years, I kept myself in touch with HR through your blog"
It is surprising and gratifying to meet you and hear that this little blog on a corner of the internet has succeeded in getting your attention.
Attention is the least thing we have in our lives, and the fact that you choose to give me yours, I am thankful.
Thanks for reading, commenting, critiquing and helping me improve. This blog is not just mine. It is a shared space, and you by reading, curating, sharing it make it "our space".
